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So it’s Trump 1, Belgium 4 – and the world rejoices. Nothing like failed chicanery to bring us together, is there?
Joy is unbounded and when it dies down perhaps the guilty will be held to account for cheating and facilitation: perhaps they wonât. Still, enjoy the moment
Oh dear. Such a shame to see the US lose at football after their insanely embarrassing president cheated for them. Still, it really brought the world together. The last time this many people cheered on a Belgian resistance, it was 1914 and the Germans had just crossed the Meuse. As youâll be aware, the USA were dumped out of their own World Cup on Monday night by a wholly superior Belgium, after Donald Trump boasted that heâd personally intervened in three phone calls with Fifa president Gianni Infantino to get the red card shown to USA striker Folarin Balogun rescinded. Yes, the US cheats at football. Pass it on.
VIDEO: Is FIFA’s integrity at stake after Donald Trump’s interference?
Is FIFA’s integrity at stake after Donald Trump’s interference?
ADAM HARVEY, REPORTER: Donald Trump is a recent convert to football and its finery.
GIANNI INFANTINO, FIFA: This is for winners only and since you are a winner, of course you can as well, touch it.
ADAM HARVEY: The head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, played to the president’s ego.
GIANNI INFANTINO: This is your peace prize for you, that you can wear everywhere you want to go.
ADAM HARVEY: Last year, Infantino presented Trump with FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize.
GIANNI INFANTINO: You can always count, Mr President, on my support and the support of the entire football community, or soccer community to help you make peace and make the world prosper.
A clothes hanger and shoe rack at the entrance, used for storing shoes, clothes, jackets, hats, bags, umbrellas in the hallway
World Cup’s credibility in question after Fifa volte face following call from Donald Trump
After four weeks of dazzling action on the pitch, it may be an off-field scandal that comes to define this summer’s World Cup. Fifa’s decision to allow America’s star striker, Folarin Balogun, to play in a last-16 match against Belgium, despite having been sent off in the previous game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, is in clear breach of the association’s own rules. The move has been greeted with outrage pretty much across the board.
Extraordinarily, Fifa, international football’s governing body, has not only so far declined to give any detailed reasoning for its decision to suspend what would be a standard one game ban following Balogun red card. The reversal appears to result from direct pressure from the White House. Media reports suggest that Donald Trump made three calls to Fifa, starting from Wednesday, to ensure that the red card was overturned. The White House has said that the call was made to understand why Balogun was sent off and the reason for the suspension.
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